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^ yeah it was good. I give it 7/10

Saw 7 Women and a Murder this evening. Italian film, Netflix. Had some amusing moments and was fairly escapist. Not as good as 8 Women (Femmes) (2002), of which it's basically a direct copy, but enjoyable nonetheless.

6/10
 
Men: Arthouse horror movie. It's a feminist allegory and pulls this off well. It's fairly graphic at times, with some body horror elements. I enjoyed it but not as much as Annihilation, the director's previous film. The pacing and vibe actually reminded me of The Green Knight, which I also enjoyed, although I wouldn't consider the latter a horror film.

Eastern Promises: A gangster film from Cronenberg, starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts. I thought it was very well done, and the Russian-gang-in-London setting was a nice change from the typical Italian-American fare.

Marriage Story: This recounts the breakdown of a marriage and the fight over custody of a child. It alternates between sad and funny and does both effectively. There's a particular scene
with an X-Acto knife
that was completely unexpected and creative and which was the highlight of the film for me.

I Don't Feel at Home In This World Anymore: This one was a joy! A dark satire about an unlikely duo of crime fighters and the minor criminals they encounter -- with both groups ending up in over their heads -- it had me laughing out loud over and over again.

Also, I saw the following films recently and considered them unremarkable, uninteresting, and/or tedious:

Emily the Criminal
The Good Nurse
Synchronic
 
About 30 minutes into Nope. Really struggling to find the motivation to keep going with it. I don't like Jordan Peele's non-comedic stuff.

I liked Keanu and Key and Peele had its moments.

Get Out was a decent film, I guess? I didn't really understand all the hoopla.

Us was stupid.

The original Candyman script was better than Peele's, but I've seen worse reboots.

He comes across as really pretentious, to me.

I guess I prefer my horror to be scary rather than preachy?

I'm going to try to keep watching a bit longer, before I give up.

EDIT: Well - holy shit - I was wrong about this one. Incredible movie. Loved it. One of the most original sci-fi films I've seen for a long time. The scenes that work more than make up for the scenes that don't.

8.5/10
 
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Raw: A French film about cannibals in an Animal House environment. Body horror but very light on the actual "horror", just graphic. This film sure makes French students look like douchebags. It seemed a bit shallow to me but I enjoyed it. There's a certain intense vibe, certainly helped along by the graphic visual aspects, that comes through despite the lack of creepiness. The protagonist is sympathetic.
 
To The Bone
Watched it for about the millionth time yesterday. Its about a girl with anorexia who goes into recovery at this very... intresting place. She had been at about every ed ward in her area and refused to coopperate untill she goes to this new place and meets a guy she ends up catching feelings for. She realizes that even if she cant love for herself, she needs to live for those who love her.
 
Steel Trap (2007) - 2.5 stars - so-so horror where 7 people are trapped in an abandoned building on New Years Eve with a killer and also various "traps". Kinda like a slasher meets Saw, but not particularly great at either. It was a fine movie to pass the time.

Black Christmas (2019) - 1 begrudged star - No stop it. This is fucking terrible. I take back anything negative I said about Black Christmas (2006). It may be a poor remake of the original, but it's a fucking cinematic masterpiece compared to this trash.

The Uh-Oh Show (2009) - 3 disembodied limbs - Fun comedy-splatter film from Herschell Gordon Lewis (R.I.P)
 
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S.J.B. said:
Raw: A French film about cannibals in an Animal House environment. Body horror but very light on the actual "horror", just graphic. This film sure makes French students look like douchebags. It seemed a bit shallow to me but I enjoyed it. There's a certain intense vibe, certainly helped along by the graphic visual aspects, that comes through despite the lack of creepiness. The protagonist is sympathetic.
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Completely agree. The film was okay, but it drove me crazy seeing this movie described as "very disturbing" and "extreme body horror" on YouTube and similar.
 
bird.brain said:
About 30 minutes into Nope. Really struggling to find the motivation to keep going with it. I don't like Jordan Peele's non-comedic stuff.

I liked Keanu and Key and Peele had its moments.

Get Out was a decent film, I guess? I didn't really understand all the hoopla.

Us was stupid.

The original Candyman script was better than Peele's, but I've seen worse reboots.

He comes across as really pretentious, to me.

I guess I prefer my horror to be scary rather than preachy?

I'm going to try to keep watching a bit longer, before I give up.

EDIT: Well - holy shit - I was wrong about this one. Incredible movie. Loved it. One of the most original sci-fi films I've seen for a long time. The scenes that work more than make up for the scenes that don't.

8.5/10
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Yep. I liked Get Out, but felt it was WAY over-hyped and over-praised. Like, it was decent, but hardly the groundbreaking masterpiece people acted like it was. I think Peel rapidly just goes downhill from there. Us was C-Tier at best and Nope was just, well, nope.
 
I actually really liked Nope by the end of it, but that sort of thing is exactly what I look for in sci-fi.

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There aren't enough good alien films being produced. We get so many zombie flicks, but there's hardly any decent UFO stuff. I'm also a sucker for monsters/creatures, so it scratched two itches... I still thought it was a bit pretentious (I could've done without the biblical subtitle at the beginning and all the chapter titles) but - yeah - it actually kind of blew me away. The scene with the blood raining down on the house. The ape doing the fist bump with the little Korean kid under the table. The people being digested inside the creature. For me, it had lots of memorable cinematic moments.


I only disliked Get Out because I thought it was racist, but maybe it wasn't meant to be racist. I don't know. There are racist white people in the world. Jordan Peele's mother is white, so I doubt he was trying to say that all white people are racist. It came across that way somewhat (god forbid anybody make the same film but swap the skin colours around)... but I think the racism was unintentional.

It was a well produced movie. Good acting. But (racism aside) it lacked a spark or something. I found it a bit boring. Maybe if I was black, it would make more sense to me? I don't know.

Us was utter crap, IMO.
 
ChemicallyEnhanced said:
Yep. I liked Get Out, but felt it was WAY over-hyped and over-praised. Like, it was decent, but hardly the groundbreaking masterpiece people acted like it was. I think Peel rapidly just goes downhill from there. Us was C-Tier at best and Nope was just, well, nope.
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I agree that "Get Out" was overhyped...it was good IMO, a decent-enough way to kill some time and an entertaining satire but it wasn't anything groundbreaking imo.

I don't know what the hell he was trying to do with "Us" but whatever it was, it didn't work...and I haven't seen "Nope" yet
 
I gave Get Out a solid 5.5/10. Wasn't very deep or thought-provoking and instantly forgettable, but it was enjoyable enough to while away the time with a friend at the cinema and share some minstrels and honey popcorn lol.
 
I re-watched The Butterfly Effect last night.
I loved it on my first watch as a teenager.
Watching it as a (thankfully significantly mentally healthier) adult, I found myself no longer desensitized to some of the horrific shit in that movie.
I found it deeply depressing and disturbing, and honestly did not enjoy it at all.
It's an excellent movie, but not one that I can enjoy anymore given how unnecesarrily graphic some of the scenes are.
 
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Sicario (2015) 8.2/10 - amazing, edge of your seat ride. Dennis Villeneuve made good films sometimes before Dune. Who knew? Not this guy lol

The Siege of Jadotville (2016) 7/10 - generic action flick with too much build up, but good action and historical context

The Power of the Dog (2021) 6.5/10 - needs a homosexual trigger tag, I didn't enjoy it turning out to be a film about hiding your gayness. I watch my fair share of gay flicks but I like an advance warning. Good film till the plot twist kinda sullied it for me

Waiting for the Barbarians (2019) 1.5/10 - a fictional empire deals with shit on the border in early 20th century looking style. This one was so bad I couldn't even finish it. Some high billed actors topped the roster but brought nothing to the film. Skip this one

Gamer (2009) 5/10 - saw this as a teen in theaters. A real product of the time; vulgar, profane, shaky camera, and just a rip off of earlier flicks. But not horrible

Outrage: Way of the Yakuza (2010) 7/10 - enjoyable if you like Yakuza flicks. But to be honest it's a very specific sub-genre of action/mob flicks. Reminded me a lot of The Yakuza Papers movies but not nearly as good

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) 5.5/10 - not one of Woody Allen's best, another movie of its time. Anthony Hopkins stole the show IMO. Extremely lacking in Allen's usual wit and humor

Road House (1989) 6/10 - pretty bad movie, but it's nice to be able to pinpoint all the references to this film you see in the 30+ years after it was released. Pat Swayze is so damned cheese. Worth a watch so you can know when it is being referenced

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) 7.2/10 - whereas the 1970s English version was star studded and stuck very strictly to the book, this film had only one recognizable German actor, and in a role that didn't even exist in the book. They took real liberties with the plot here. If you never read the book, this is the better version; for those who enjoyed the novel, the 1970s version is the one to watch. Good WWI action though
 
White Lightning (1973)

Pretty enjoyable flick. I've spent time in central/southern Arkansas and so I really connected with this film. Burt Reynolds is great as 'Gator McKlusky', a moonshiner set free who is on a war path after his hippie brother is murdered by a corrupt sheriff. Great 70s car chase scenes, decent acting from all involved. Much of the soundtrack was borrowed by Quentin Tarantino for a few of his 2000s era flicks, and I get the feeling this was one of his favorite films. You can really see it being an influence and reference point for several of his revenge style flicks.

7.7/10
 
Cream Gravy? said:
Outrage: Way of the Yakuza (2010) 7/10 - enjoyable if you like Yakuza flicks. But to be honest it's a very specific sub-genre of action/mob flicks. Reminded me a lot of The Yakuza Papers movies but not nearly as good
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You ever see "Fudoh: The Next Generation" (1996)? That's a pretty well-regarded one in that subgenre. I remember thinking that it was just OK though, not necessarily fantastic when compared to other Asian crime thrillers from Japan, Hong Kong etc. during that period. I remember nothing specific about it though, I wouldn't mind watching it again

I'm not sure how much I'd actually bother defending "Gamer", but I'm kind of sympathetic in regards to what they were trying to do with some of the social commentary I guess. They were basically trying to portray a sci-fi near future environment in which the vulgarity of the Internet had bleed into every nook and cranny of everyday life, from the anchors who casually curse on-air to the bizarre virtual reality simulation that the main character's wife exists in (I remember either reading or watching an interview with the film's screenwriter where they said this). They weren't super effective as far as the execution went, and there was definite room for improvement, but I like the concept, it reminds me almost like something that Paul Verhoeven would do, it had the potential to be done as satire quite effectively imo

Or maybe they just made a vulgar, violent action movie and then decided that they were actually trying to make "Bladerunner", I dunno lol
 
Burnt Offerings said:
I'm not sure how much I'd actually bother defending "Gamer", but I'm kind of sympathetic in regards to what they were trying to do with some of the social commentary I guess. They were basically trying to portray a sci-fi near future environment in which the vulgarity of the Internet had bleed into every nook and cranny of everyday life, from the anchors who casually curse on-air to the bizarre virtual reality simulation that the main character's wife exists in (I remember either reading or watching an interview with the film's screenwriter where they said this). They weren't super effective as far as the execution went, and there was definite room for improvement, but I like the concept, it reminds me almost like something that Paul Verhoeven would do, it had the potential to be done as satire quite effectively imo
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It’s not the worst flick. Indeed it was a good idea on paper; I just felt the execution was “meh”. Like it was a very believable plot for the most part but I just, didn’t like it much.

It’s mostly the 2000s era shaky camera thing that gets to me. Quick cuts and shaky cameras don’t make up for poor cinematography. The acting was decent the plot was decent. But yeah, a product of its time.

If Paul Verhoeven had directed it I honestly think it would have been a good movie. But alas, it came up short.
 
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